1.   Most of the survivors Wednesday morning are still aboard a Panamanian freighter that picked them up, but two U.S. Coast Guard cutters are on the scene.

2.   Panamanian officials have denied unconfirmed reports that emerged over the weekend that the group was rescued by a Panamanian freighter.

3.   Freighters from the Czech Republic and Turkey collided in the Bosporus Strait Wednesday when a Panamanian freighter abruptly stopped in midstream, a Port Authority official said.

4.   Nine others survived and were rescued by a passing Panamanian freighter.

5.   They had sneaked aboard the Panamanian freighter Hsinkangchiao in Hong Kong last Thursday, officers added.

6.   They were thought to have arrived on a Panamanian freighter Tuesday, the official said.

7.   The port side of the Panamanian freighter hit the bow of the South Korean cargo ship, which was at anchor at the time, the agency said.

8.   Such was the case with the Panamanian registered freighter Hye Mieko, seized in the Gulf of Thailand in June, its holds brimming with cigarettes.